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Who should read this book Students who anticipate performing TEQA will find the content very beneficial. This includes students at universities and four-year colleges that offer an analytical chemistry course with an environmental emphasis. As we have found at Michigan State University, there is a real need to teach incoming graduate students the principles encompassed in this book. The book also serves the practicing analytical chemist who works in an environmental testing laboratory or equivalent. 

Preview This section discusses the role of undergraduate and graduate students who function as teaching assistants in promoting safety in undergraduate teaching laboratories. 

At UCI, she teaches graduate-level courses in atmospheric chemistry on a regular basis. In addition, she teaches such classes as undergraduate instrumental analysis, in which she is developing a new laboratory curriculum centered around the analysis of complex environmental mixtures. This work has been supported by the Dreyfus Foundation and UCI. 

Despite his international stature in research, it was important to Fred Shafizadeh to be involved in teaching. In fact, he insisted each year on teaching a freshman-chemistry course. It was imperative to him to teach the meaning of inquiry, and to convey the spirit and thrill of discovery. His absolute devotion to academic excellence came as much from Persian as from western culture. At the advanced level, his graduate students and postdoctoral fellows left his laboratory remarkably able to move into respon-... 

A second strategy is to use undergraduate assistants to help manage the research projects. Students who have completed the course or interested science majors can work closely with research teams in designing and conducting research, especially laboratory components. For institutions with graduate students, teaching assistants can also be used. 

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